New proposed privacy bill to impose penalties of up to 4% of a company’s annual revenue for first-time privacy violations and potential jail time for senior executives who lie about them.
Report from Momentum Cyber finds that the first half of 2021 was the busiest on record for the cybersecurity market in terms of investment and strategic activity. The torrid pace has been indirectly driven by the massive spike in ransomware attacks.
Check Point discovered another security vulnerability in Qualcomm chips affecting 40% of smartphones, allowing hackers to inject code in Android phones, including Google, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, and One Plus brands.
New iOS 13 will limit VoIP apps from running in the background and thus close a loophole that allows third-party apps to exploit background access to collect data on users.
Simply confirming that phone numbers are linked to WhatsApp accounts can be a security risk. Confirming that a number is registered and active makes it more valuable and more of a priority to spammers, scammers and hackers. The security flaw can also expose someone using the app in a country where it is banned.
In a massive data leak, details of 115 million Pakistani mobile subscribers have surfaced online after a hacker tried to sell the package for 300 bitcoins equivalent to $2.1 million.
A ransomware attack hit the online ticketing platform Vivaticket, disrupting booking services across European museums and monuments.
Since the start of the Privacy Sandbox project, Google has been strongly pushing to eliminate third party cookies entirely beginning with its Chrome browser. That initiative had seemed to be well underway, but now appears to be over.
Attackers approach targets for account takeover pretending to be a member of the Meta tech support team, using Facebook profiles that they have created that have a post history that makes it appear as if they are a legitimate employee.
Google’s Acquisition of Fitbit may have privacy implications if they combine the health and fitness data with what they know about users from search and other Google services.
